1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs x. 182 Horses that draw a pole-lesse chariot.

1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 141 A pal, or small poleless tent, such as is customary for the wives of travelling natives.

1911 Times 3 July 13/6 Pasemann..jumped 12ft., and ran off unconcernedly to take his turn at the comparatively insignificant height to which poleless man is limited.

1957 H. Driver & W. Massey Compar. Stud. N. Amer. Indians ii. 196 Pole snares, and poleless snares held in the hand, are reported to have been used to catch large fish.

2004 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 13 Nov. (Travel section) 3 We used the pole-less tent as a sleeping bag for the rest of the trip.

1874 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 164 541 The axial current imparts poleless magnetism tangentially to the outer layer of molecules of the iron.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 115/2 If the iron is of such form that the lines of magnetization are entirely closed lines, the arrangement constitutes a poleless electromagnet.

1925 H. C. Booth tr. F. Auerbach Mod. Magnetics (U.K. ed.) ii. 36 If [the curve] be closed the two end points neutralize each other, and we then obtain the poleless ring.

2001 IEEE Jrnl. Solid State Circuits 36 1673 (title) A low-jitter 125–1250-MHz process-independent and ripple-poleless 0.18-μm CMOS PLL based on a sample–reset loop filter.